crosscut

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• transitive verb To cut or run across or through.
• transitive verb To cut using a crosscut saw.
• transitive verb To interweave (two separate, usually concurrent scenes or sequences) in a film.
• adjective Constructed or used for cutting crosswise.
• adjective Cut across or crosswise.
• noun A course or cut going crosswise.
• noun A path more direct than the main path; a shortcut.
• noun A level in a mine driven so that it intersects a vein of ore.
• noun A crosscut saw.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To cut across.
• To cross-plow, as in fallowing.
• noun In mathematics, a line, regarded as a section actually made in the surface, which begins at one point of a boundary, goes into the interior of the surface, and, without anywhere intersecting either another boundary-line or itself, ends at a point of the boundary.
• noun A direct course from one point to another, crosswise or diagonal to another or the usual one; a shortened road or path.
• noun In mining: A level driven across the “country,” or so as to connect two levels with each other.
• noun A trench or opening in the surface-detritus or -soil, at right angles to the supposed course of the lode, made for the purpose of ascertaining the exact position and nature of the latter.
• Adapted or used for cutting anything crosswise: as, a cross-cut saw or chisel.
• Cut across the grain or on the bias: as, cross-cut crape.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb To cut across or through; to intersect.
• noun A short cut across; a path shorter than by the high road.
• noun (Mining) A level driven across the course of a vein, or across the main workings, as from one gangway to another.
• noun A saw managed by two men, one at each end, for cutting large logs crosswise.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb To cut across something.
• verb To cut repeatedly between two concurrent scenes in a film
• noun A crosswise cut
• noun A shortcut
• noun An instance of filmic crosscutting
• noun A crosscut saw

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a route shorter than the usual one
• verb cut using a diagonal line
• noun a diagonal path